More than * years of professional hands on experience in Manual Testing for complex software projects in standalone client/server and web applications for both private industry and the Federal Government involving Federal Procurements. Software Quality Assurance (QA) experience working with Client/Server and Web applications on UNIX and Windows platforms. Seeked out issues through JIRA to represent the tasks needed to complete each project. Preparing documentation plan, estimating work, and assigning work to the team. Experienced in writing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, and required documentation to aid in applications’ deployment. Excellent testing knowledge of a variety of different types of testing using the JIRA bug tracking tool this includes Load Testing, Stress Testing, Functional Testing, Backend/Database Testing, Regression Testing, Section 508 Compliance testing, UAT, and Integration testing. Self starter with excellent communication, interpersonal and analytical skills while working independently or as part of a team.

SUMMARY

●Working in Agile DevOps environment

●Responded to all incoming questions and inquiries related to JIRA applications.

●Participated in learning of scripting languages such as UNIX and JAVA for project management.

●Prepared projects, dashboards, reports and questions for all JIRA related services.

●Reported performance related issues to management by analysis and tracking of existing systems.

●Generated scripts for effective integration of JIRA applications with other tools.

●Conducted analysis and evaluation of existing systems to upgrade latest versions of JIRA.

●Suggested improvement processes for screens, workflow procedures and reports of applications.

●Developed technical solutions by coordinating with internal project teams & understanding of requirements.

●Executed Test Cases, Track Defects, Recreate it, attach Screenshots, report as Defect

●Setup Agile Performance Continuous Integration

●8+ years of extensive experience in Software Quality Assurance Manual Testing

●Performed 508 Compliance Testing

●Experience with Cross Browsing

●Experience in both Waterfall and Agile methodologies

●Created test cases based application requirements

●Proficient with Microsoft Test Manager and HP Quality Center tools

●Created Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) using Silk Central Open Test Management SCTM

●Proficiency with writing SQL queries for backend testing

●Worked on Silk Performer WorkBench to record, playback and customize the scripts

●Effectively and efficiently worked with Oracle, MS-SQL, MySQL, MS-Access databases

●Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office Applications.

●Proven communication and personal skills

●Quick starter, systematic and Self learner and a good team player with excellent leadership abilities

●Backend Testing using SQL queries.

●Test Engineering experience in Federal procurements

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

Operating Systems

AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, UNIX, CMM, Windows XP, Windows NT, ISO 9000, and Linux

Web Browser

Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome

Databases

Oracle,SQL Server,MySQL

Testing Tools

JAWS, QC, ALM, JIRA, TOAD, MTM, Silk Test, Black Box, DBVisualizer, HP Quality Center, HP ALM (10.0, 11.0), JAVAscript, HTML

Methodologies

Agile Scrum, Waterfall, Devops

Concur Government Edition Agency Validation May 2013 to Current

Sr. Test Engineer Projects: GSA, NASA,DOI,HHS,IRS et al.

Responsibilities:

●Worked on travel and budget application for multiple government agencies: SBA, AAFES, EXIM, TSA, ICE, DOI, GSA, DOE

●Used JIRA and ALM as Test Repository for requirements, defect tracking, analyzing, documenting and communication.

● Prepared projects, dashboards, reports and questions for all JIRA related services.

●Reported performance related issues to management by analysis and tracking of existing systems.

●Worked with Functional Consultants to create custom agency environments.

●We used HP-ALM to supported various phases of the software development life cycle when tracking artifacts related to the project.

● HP-ALM was used to communicate with the development, and business analyst with our agency specific roles varied agency to agency

●Closely analyzed during the Cycles used with HP-ALM by using different sets of testing efforts that are performed to facilitate the release.

● Create Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) using SCTM

●Designed as a Manual Functional Tester test cases or test scenarios that were executed & any differences between actual & expected results are reported as defects.Then retest the defect to make sure that the defects are fixed.

●Main goal of Functional Software testing is to make software defect free & deliver good quality.

●Execute Test Cases and Create Defects in SCTM

●Create Visual Test Scripts in SilkTest

●Perform 508 Compliance Testing

●Perform backend testing using SQL queries

● Received personal recognition from Test Manager for taking on additional work responsibilities.

●Create test cases based application requirements

●Create and marked test data according to test case scenarios

●Work with R&D and Feature team to debug defects

●Executed Test Cases, Track Defects, Recreate it, attach Screenshots, report as Defect, on JIRA

Monthly deployment and regression testing

●Fast paced Agile Scrum environment

●Monthly Sprints Support manual test team of 10 people

Environment/Tools: JIRA, ALM, QC, HP-ALM, Agile Scrum

Salient Federal Solutions January 2008 to May 2013 Test Engineer Projects: OPM, EPIC Transformation, Closing, Forms Ingest, and DRSIP

Responsibilities:

●Analyze Business, Functional Requirements and Design Review Documents to develop Test Plan.Write several Test Scenarios and detailed test cases of web based applications written in Java.

●Manual Functional testing (negative testing, boundary testing, database testing, 508 testing, regression testing, end to end testing).

●Assist in maintaining mainframe Test user accounts.

●Create custom test scripts for record and playback using active data for data driven scenarios.

●Received personal recognition from Test Manager for taking on additional work responsibilities.

●Create test cases based application requirements

●Create and marked test data according to test case scenarios

●Create Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) using SCTM

●Used Quality Center as Test Repository for requirements, mapped business requirements to test sets, archived the test results by build, tracked defects, analyzed the productivity based on the open, closed, blocked, reopened bugs

●Execute Test Cases and Create Defects in SCTM

●Perform backend testing using SQL queries

● Front-end and back-end testing

Environment: Silk Central Test Manager (SCTM for Test Management and Defect Tracking),Silk Test, ISO 9000, Workbench, HTML, SQL,

Education : University of South Florida, BS, Computer Science

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